Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:19:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: DougB@gorean.org (Doug Barton) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken Message-ID: <200010280019.RAA03328@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <39F8FDED.5C0C8A05@gorean.org> from "Doug Barton" at Oct 26, 2000 09:00:45 PM
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> > This is sweet! Seems it would give us the full benefits of Mark's > > randomdev, and fit nicely with our normal configuration framework and > > gives good flexibility. > > It also describes just what we have currently, except it misses the > advantages of putting the entropy file on the root partition which makes > it available immediately, and doesn't have mounting races built in. What currently exists does not allow a read-only /. Which sucks. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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